This week’s activities Autumn has finally arrived and so we are exploring what the season has to offer in terms of colours through exploration of the natural environment. The children have then drawn on these experiences and reflected them in their arts and crafts; learning the names of the colours, brown, yellow, orange and...Read More
This week’s activities Please find below this week’s summary of activities: In their literacy development, the children have been engaging with the lovely book “Room on the Broom”. Alongside listening to the story and repeating some of the refrains (great for speech and language, as well as literacy development), lots of resources were used alongside...Read More
This week’s activities The children have loved exploring the playdough this week, using it in a variety of ways, for example, earlier in the week it was used to create nuts for the squirrels and spines for the hedgehogs. The following day it was used to create cakes. It was one of the children’s birthdays,...Read More
This week’s activities As you will have hopefully noticed, we have grown some very impressive sunflowers this summer. They are now beginning to fade and droop, so we have made the most of the ones we have cut down to explore them more closely. The children talked about the parts of the sunflower and learnt...Read More
The Revised Early Years Foundation Stage September 2021 The Statutory Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage was updated as of September 2021. Please find below an article by the Early Learning Alliance summarising what this means for you and your child. An introduction to the Early Years Foundation Stage for parents If your child is...Read More
This week’s activities Please find below a snapshot of this week’s activities. Developing gross motor skills has many benefits for children; not only in terms of health but in developing the strength and co-ordination that allows them to sit upright, concentrate and develop the fine motor skills needed to write. Our children have lots...Read More
This week’s activities Please find below a summary of some of the activities the children have engaged in this week: Children learn about maths through every day activities. A few examples this week have included counting songs and rhymes, eg ‘5 little speckled frogs’. The children learn the total ‘5’, they then learn that...Read More
